28 aug the trope has exactly 50 wicks.
Misinterpreting someone's words or actions as a come on 15/ 50
- DarthWiki.Hopes Requiem: Imagined Innuendo: Ryouta often misinterprets the male cast's speech to be hitting on him.
- Radiata Stories: Imagined Innuendo: When Jack takes over Fort Helencia, he decides to bask in his glory by (jokingly) telling Natalie that he will spare her life if she does exactly as he says. Natalie misinterprets this until Jack clarifies that all he wanted her to do was "grovel a bit".
- Recap.Rick And Morty S 4 E 5 Rattlestar Ricklactica: Non Sequitur: When Rick generates a fake Jerry head to emulate his voice, the head suddenly throws in the line "I will eat your world." Beth dismisses the statement for a double entendre.
- Podcast.Pretend Friends: Cheating with the Milkman: An odd example. While trying to break into a house, Killcat ends up seducing the wife of a Sol Empire officer... completely by accident.
- Young Frankenstein: Imagined Innuendo: This exchange at the lab:Frankenstein: Elevate me.Inga: Now? Right here?Frederick: Yes, yes, raise the platform.Inga (embarrassed): Oh, ze platform, oh, zat, ja, ja, yes...
- DiariesOfAMadman.Tropes G To N: Imagined Innuendo: Nav initially thinks Braeburn is coming on to him in Chapter 54, when Braeburn is actually being completely sincere and offering him food.Braeburn: Don’t you want to try my sweet applesauce?Navarone: *double take*
- Characters.Marriage Of Heaven And Hell Fujiwara Household: Imagined Innuendo: Koneko gets defensive when she tells Makoto that she'll "make sure you stay nice and warm" during his training.
- Characters.Glee New Directions Original Members: Imagined Innuendo: Mercedes suspects that Kurt is gay...at least until the cheerleaders tell her he likes her. Then she interprets every time they hang out as a date. Unfortunately, her first instincts were correct.
- Characters.Fairy Tail Juvia Lockser: Imagined Innuendo: During their first battle, Juvia first mistook Gray's stripping as a sign of sexual intent, which she understandably thought was moving too fast.
- Characters.Dr Crafty Nurse Worse: Imagined Innuendo: Nurse gets aroused when the Sanderson Sisters talk about their desire to "eat" her in "Hocus Mansion," unaware that their true intention is they want to consume her body and soul. Crafty spends the episode rescuing her from becoming the Sisters' next meal, but Nurse misunderstands his intent and calls him out each and every time.
- Characters.Allo Allo: Imagined Innuendo: René is hiding a radio behind the bar in his Café in "The Dance of Hitler Youth" and it begins spouting code phrases meant for resistance agents (usually gibberish like "Pierre enjoys riding his new bicycle"), which rouses Gruber's suspicions, so he asks René who is saying these things, and René, wanting to keep the radio a secret, claims that he's the one who said them. Unfortunately for René, the next phrase to come out of the radio is "Listen very carefully, meet me behind the woodshed at one o'clock.", which Gruber interprets this as an invitation for a quick shag, and very eagerly and happily agrees to meet René there.
- Ididnt Mean To Turn You On: Referenced in a darkly hilarious interaction between Tim and Lady Shiva in the Robin miniseries when he goes to Hong Kong. Lady Shiva wakes him up at night for their martial arts training, telling him that she'll bring him to a "whole new world". The decidedly chaste Tim's response? "Um... I don't think I'm ready for this". Lady Shiva then nonchalantly replied that they can do that later, after the training.
- ComicBook.Robin: I Didn't Mean to Turn You On: Darkly hilariously depicted between Tim and Lady Shiva. Lady Shiva wakes him up at night for their martial arts training, telling him that she'll bring him to a "whole new world". Tim's response? "Um... I don't think I'm ready for this". Lady Shiva then nonchalantly replied that they can do that later, after the training. - The same example as previous, just on the work's page.
- Wall Pin of Love: In less serious works, this may be Played for Laughs by having the victim assume they're being flirted with. - part of the description
- Characters.Danganronpa Miu Iruma: Imagined Innuendo: Because she is a pervert, Miu tends to read too much into innocuous remarks and mistake them for something sexual, especially in some of her Love Across the Universe date events. To name some examples, she mistakes Shuichi's suggestion to "get their bodies moving" to mean that they go to the gym storage room and see what happens next, mistakes his remark that he is getting sleepy to mean that he wants to sleep with her, and mistakes his offer to "drink something" as a ploy to drug her and rough her up, the last one causing her to panic.
Generally thinking someone's attracted to you when they are not 4/ 50
- Much Ado About Nothing: Imagined Innuendo: Once Benedick's convinced that Beatrice is in love with him, he decides that everything she says to him must have a hidden meaning.
- Funny.Much Ado About Nothing: The following exchange after Benedick is tricked into believing that Beatrice is in love with him. (Hint: she's not...yet.)Beatrice: Against my will, I am sent to bid you come in to dinner.
Benedick: Fair Beatrice, I thank you for your pains.
Beatrice: I took no more pains for those thanks than you take pains to thank me. If it had been painful, I would not have come.
(later)
Benedick: Ha! “Against my will, I am sent to bid you come in to dinner.” There’s a double meaning in that. “I took no more pains for those thanks than you took pains to thank me.” That’s as much as to say, “Any pains that I take for you is as easy as thanks.” If I do not take pity of her, I am a villain. - Jeeves and Wooster: Imagined Innuendo: Bertie Wooster mistakenly creates the impression that he is proposing to/hitting on/in love with various women on a regular basis (when usually he is, in fact, trying to set her up with a friend). Most of the time they aren't particularly interested in Bertie, but end up accepting his "proposal" anyway, for one reason or another - often to provoke the friend's jealousy.
- DarthWiki.WALLE Forum Roleplay: Imagined Innuendo: Clark thinks that all female robots can't take their eyes off him.
Misenterpreting the nature of other people relationship 4/ 50
- The Wolfat Weston Court: Imagined Innuendo: Sorenson seems to get the wrong idea when Elgin, looking pretty disheveled, comes home with Nova.Elgin: If anyone asks, you haven’t seen me since this morning, and I’m certainly not at home. That goes for the lady as well.Sorenson: I don’t think your father would approve, sir.
- Yosuga no Sora: Imagined Innuendo: When Haruka overhears a sensual conversation between Akira and Kazuha who are really play-fighting. He thinks they're having lesbian sex in the girl's locker room.
- Anime.Oh Edo Rocket: Imagined Innuendo: For much of the series, Seikichi (and Akai apparently) thinks Ginjiro and Sora have been going out.
- Characters.X Blaze Code Embryo: Imagined Innuendo: When he first meets Es and demands to know what Touya’s relationship with her is, Es says she is “to be in constant contact with Touya.” Akira takes this to mean that the two are sleeping together and freaks out at the idea of Touya having had sex.
Assuming something is a double entendre when it's not 12/ 50
- commodoreHUSTLE: Imagined Innuendo: Alex invokes this in "Bros Clubbing Bros".Alex: Hey James, you wanna play Bros Twisting Bros?James: (backs away) Is this another trick question?
- Recap.Corner Gas Animated S 2 E 4 Hedge Your Debts: Unprovoked Pervert Payback: When Wanda hears Emma talking to Hank about art, Wanda has a daydream about Hank painting Emma in the nude. When the daydream ends, she slaps Hank and calls him a pervert. Helen then comes up and asks Hank when he's going to get to her boxwood, causing Wanda to slap him and call him a pervert again.
- Kisses And Curses: Imagined Innuendo: The heroine rounds on Niklas when she learns that he was "making lightning" with Alix, only for him to clarify that it was literal, as in they were doing storm magic together.
- She Kills Monsters: Imagined Innuendo: When Agnes meets Chuck:Agnes: I'm looking for a Chuck Biggs?
Chuck: You're looking at him! But my hommies just call me simply DM Biggs cause, you know, I'm "big" where it counts.
Agnes: Uh...
Chuck: As in MY BRAIN!
Agnes: [relieved] Oh!!! - Series/NCIS: Imagined Innuendo: A little one from "Jack Knife," in which a sleep-deprived McGee totally misinterprets Gibb's request regarding Tony and Ziva:Gibbs: Get Ziva and DiNozzo out of bed.
McGee: What?!
Gibbs: Wake 'em up.
McGee: Oh. Oh, right. Get them out of bed because it's the middle of the night and they're asleep.
Gibbs: (incredulously) Yes.
McGee: Individual beds. Get them out of individual beds. I was confused. I thought we were talking —
Gibbs: Need some sleep yourself, do you, McGee? - Recap.The Amazing World Of Gumball S 4 E 3 The Crew: Imagined Innuendo: Gumball and Darwin are asked to send a message to Louie. As in, text him. Not, as they assume, "ice" him.
- Recap.Arrested Development S 3 E 3 Forget Me Now: Imagined Innuendo: Lindsay takes Bob Loblaw's "I will be needing to get off in four minutes" the wrong way.
- Funny.Grand Blues: Sturm misinterprets a lot of Drang's dialogues (and monologues) to be laced with perversion and her usual response is to stab his partner's exposed back... or subject him to other forms of torture such as burning him at stake. An averted example is when Drang asks Cagliostro for the chance to play "horsey" to which Sturm immediately thinks of the situation where the little alchemist rides Drang. She rushes towards the scene, only to find out that Drang is riding Cagliostro's pet Ouroborous instead.
- Film.A Window In London: Imagined Innuendo: The reporter who is taking down Thompson's story about the "stabbing" initially gets the wrong idea about the kind of incident Thompson is describing:Thompson: I was looking out of the window on the underground, travelling overground,...when I saw a man messing about with a girl.Reporter: What?!Thompson: He was trying to stick a knife into her.Reporter: Ha, knife, I get you.
- DoubleEntendre.Live Action TV: After reading the female-empowering, jargon-laced book, Be Your Own Windkeeper, Rachel pushes back on Ross’ demand that they leave for movie on time, resulting in this exchange:
- Rachel: How do you expect me to grow if you won’t let me blow?
Ross: You know I don’t … have a ... have a problem with that …
- Friends.Tropes F To J: Imagined Innuendo: After reading the female-empowering, jargon-laced book, Be Your Own Windkeeper, Rachel pushes back on Ross’ demand that they leave for movie on time, resulting in this exchange:Rachel: “How do you expect me to grow if you won’t let me blow?”
Ross: <<long pause>> “You know I don’t … don't have a problem with that …” - The same as previous, just on another page. - DanganronpaV3KillingHarmony.Tropes I To O: Imagined Innuendo: In Chapter 1, Kokichi asks Kaede how far she has gone with Shuichi. Kaede takes offense to that, but Kokichi just wanted to know how far they have gone in exploring the school.
ZCE or possibly an Audience Reaction 2/ 50
- Manga.Nodame Cantabile: Imagined Innuendo: - Unclear if it's an Audience Reaction or In-UniverseNodame: "Do you remember what happened last night?"
- Funny.Danganronpa V 3 Killing Harmony: Kokichi asks Kaede how far she has gone with Shuichi... in exploring the school. - Unclear if it's an Audience Reaction or In-Universe
Administrivia 7/ 50
- Marvel Cinematic Universe
- Imagine All the Tropes: Imagined Innuendo: A dirty imagination sees a double-entendre where there really isn't one. - Index
- Love Tropes: Imagined Innuendo: A character's dialogue is misinterpreted as a Double Entendre by another. - Index
- Mistaken for Index: Imagined Innuendo: A character assumes something innocuous is lewd, but the audience knows it isn't. - Index
- Un Entendre: Compare Imagined Innuendo – part of the description
- Tropes F to L – Just listed as an example of an alliterative trope name
- Just for Fun/Troperithmetic: (Imagined Innuendo | Innocent Innuendo | Hands-On Approach) + (Accidental Pervert | Clueless Chick-Magnet) = Ididnt Mean To Turn You On
Other 6/ 50
- The Last Story: Imagined Innuendo: When you first go to the Arena, Syrenne uses some very interesting words to describe the 'activities' that occur there. Zael misinterprets the place for a brothel or love hotel (it doesn't help how he spots a nearby NPC couple making out). - Mistaking a place for what it's not.
- You Are Beautiful: Gayngst: Jeremy. His body reacts as if Mi-nam is a girl (which she is), but his brain doesn't seem to catch on. This results in him repressing his feelings, interpreting things wrong, and pretty much acting as a mild Type B tsundere. Of course, the gayngst ends as soon as he finds out the truth... only to find out Mi-nyeo likes Tae-kyung. - A character's general tendency to see double meaning.
- Let's Play.Versus: Imagined Innuendo: In episode 7, Tyler complains that when you're an adult, every adjective is spoiled by a sexual connotation. Josh initially tells him to Get Your Mind Out of the Gutter, but after a few examples starts agreeing with him. - A character's general tendency to see double meaning.
- Characters.Oyasumi Midoriya: Imagined Innuendo: When Bakugou is explaining a dream he had about Midoriya, Momo asks if it's one of...another vareity. Naturally, Midoriya and Bakugou react the way you'd think they would. - seems to be intentional trolling, though it's not entirely clear without more context.
- Characters.Despairing Vacation 2: Imagined Innuendo: When Rocky was trying to ask for a piggyback ride. Likely on other occasions as well, always resulting in an embarrassed, awkward atmosphere.
- Characters.Game Of Thrones Sansa Stark: The Ingenue: While not stupid by any means, Sansa is woefully naive, to the point where "Mhysa" reveals her belief that the vulgar way of saying dung is "shift". One suspects this is part of the reason so many characters in King's Landing seem to take it upon themselves to try and protect her (though, unfortunately, just as many as seek to exploit her).
